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No. 2 chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Tuesday said it expects a "substantial" second quarter operating loss as weakness in PC sales will lead to revenues that fall far short of estimates, and its shares fell in after hours trade.

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VR-Zone has put up a Day 1 report on the CommunicAsia 2002 that is taking place in Singapore from June 18th to 21st.

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Thanks TheMadScot for this one:

Just to let you know that telewest's blueyonder service is now available to order at 1mbps

As a user of their 512kbps service, i was pleasantly surprised to find that they're only charging an extra £10 per month for this - AND they've doubled the upload speed to 256kbps

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Microsoft is changing pricing for its BizTalk Server. Company executives acknowledge that adoption of the application-integration software for business-to-business transactions over the Internet has lagged far behind its use in connecting internal business applications.

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Explosive Hardware has posted their AMD Tech Tour 2002 Coverage

During the presentations every manufacturer that was there had a representative make a short presentation. Some of them were good while I must say others were very lacking and un-informative. AMD had the most informative presentations covering everything there is needed to know for a systems builder which is who the show was aimed towards. They talked about their system and how they don't judge a processor by it's megahertz rating for performance but by how many clock cycles per second it can do.
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Thanks Clutch for this one:

Oracle e-mail targets cash contributions
As questions mounted about a controversial contract between California and Oracle, a lobbyist for the database giant encouraged the company to make cash contributions to win the support of key state politicians.

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Two Oracle Flaws Put Machines at Risk
Security researchers have found two serious buffer overruns in Oracle Corp. products, both of which give an attacker complete control of a vulnerable machine.

One flaw affects Windows machines running any version of Oracle9i, while the other affects any machine running the 9i Application Server, according to a bulletin released by Next Generation Security Software Ltd.

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